Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conviction is that Congress has delegated to the President and the Federal Reserve System too much of its power to regulate the currency, devoted his first 15-minute speech to an unhurried introduction to his topic, happily concluded: "I thank you, fellow members of Congress, for your attention." His seven remaining talks will include discussions on The World Panic and the Disasters Following, The Remedy for Depressions, What Is Inflation? "I want to explain this Depression," says conscientious Finly H. Gray, "and at the close of the session you can't get enough time to thoroughly discuss a question...
...served with over $500,000,000 of food, clothing and funds from 1915 to 1919. The Chamber of Representatives stood and cheered as it was announced that the "Friend of Belgium," the title conferred by the late King Albert I, was on his way (TIME, Feb. 28). In a seven-day "sentimental journey" he toured reconstructed War areas, which he had not visited since he accompanied President Wilson in 1919. After conversing with young King Leopold III, Premier Paul Emile Janson and Foreign Minister Paul Spaak, the former President left for Lille, France, two medals the richer...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (TIME...
Little Felix Kaspar won the world's championship in 1937, succeeding his fellow Viennese Karl Schaefer, who had held the title seven years running. Something of a blade, Kaspar often wears trousers rather than tights, always wears a grin on his dimpled pink face. His greatest accomplishment, however, is jumping. He is only 5 ft. 5 in. tall, yet one of his Axel Paulsen jumps has been measured as over 4 ft. 6 in. high, 18 ft. 6 in. long. In last week's Carnival, for which his billings were changed (for diplomatic reasons) from "Champion of Austria...
...good hour exam, as hour exams go, and as hour exams go, it went. At seven minutes past the hour, the proctors passed out the bluebooks, and at twenty past the hour they got around to passing out the examination itself...